MSE has closed the Money Saving Arms.

Marvel1

I miss the 'what is irrarating you' thread, it was a good to way to blow off steam anonymously instead of Facebook.

joansgirl

Marvel1 said:

I miss the 'what is irrarating you' thread, it was a good to way to blow off steam anonymously instead of Facebook.

https://moneyskiversarms.createaforum.com/index.php

stingey

On tonight as I wanted something other than FB/TW to occupy my mind.  Wanted to look at debate boards as they are more reasoned on here than what you see on social media as algorithms only show you familiar content.  Get on here to find boards shut and a lot of regular members not posting. 

Absolute head-scratching decision especially when some people are in lockdown and shielding and this is how they are staying in contact with others. Shame 

stephen77

reliability said:

elsien said:

sweetsand said:

I would not join the new board and am glad that the he/she poster that was here 7x7, 24/7, his/her life actually was the MSE discussion forums has joined the new place and they are rarely here now. This is all good for the MSE forums as posters like that just created non existent problems.  I can post quiet a bit on the forums and waste a lot of my time arguing with clowns that think they know it all. I've said it on this thread about my 3mobile post and the first response was by a joker. I rebuked the joker as the thread was a serious one where real people can get defrauded of everything they own. 

Not just MSE but every forum I've been on you have your little cliques where people don't work, never worked, work from home or HQ and spend too much time trying to score points and when you get the better of them IE point out their mistake/s, they take it personally and the PM's start lying to others with too much time on their hnads who then join in to defend the indefensible. Thankfully there are not a lot of them these days and this recent action by MSE will stop these time wasters posting here so people can then raise genuine concerns, alerts, questions via threads with a lot less fear of being mocked or hypocritical posts.

I read last night several threads and two stick in my mins. One was about claiming benefits and working along with trying to get a couicl property, the rubbish that was posted at by some that had been here for a while and the OP was accused of being X, Y, Z etc.
The other thread was by someone who must have worked hard all of their lives like some of here and they were asking about how to safeguard some assets at least to pass on to their grandchildren, children etc as they felt they'd paid more than enough tax at every stag. The abuse, p taking hypocritical stance by those that may never had a penny to their name or managing hand to moth was incredible.

Before I continue with my online shopping I must mention a thread where the OP talked about an nice holiday in the UK but it was expensive with " ? number of kids." the indirect p taking, the condescending, the hypocritical posts was incredible but as soon as the OP hit back, pals came to support the silly posts and yes, the OP was then claimed to be an ex poster and the usual he/she was X, Y, Z, etc. 
I'm glad that a couple of posters that spent their lives on MSE may have moved on to trash another forum.

All I have to say to this is pot and kettle. 

All I have to say is - what more proof of the cliques in here do you need?

Keep it shut MSE and give yourselves the chance to attract new members that are interested in helping others to save money but who wouldn't join before because of the nastiness & trolling which you'd earned quite the reputation for.

Not sure how a sub section of a forum stops new people joining and helping others?
Up until recently you had to log in, even to see DT.

I often used other parts of the forum for advice. If I wanted know about eg holiday advice. I would read the holiday part of the board etc. I would not go into DT and start reading threads about clueless tories as I know that will not help about holidays. 

Not really sure where the reputation comes from? outside of posting on here. No one in the real world has ever mentioned DT to me. 

badmemory

Surely I can't be the only one who when a thread turned to rubbish was capable of saying "oh bother" & just moving on & leaving them to it.

redux

badmemory said:

Surely I can't be the only one who when a thread turned to rubbish was capable of saying "oh bother" & just moving on & leaving them to it.

There were some I didn't bother to even start to read.

203846930

redux said:

Cornucopia said:

JohnTeapot said:

Onebrokelady said:

I posted a few times on DT but must admit I did start to find it a bit scary at times 🙀

scared by letters on a page?
are you mentally ill?

Scary response.

You're being too polite.. Out of order should be more accurate.

When someone questioned is state of mind, it was reported, removed and a note sent to the member concerned.

colinw

and relax.......

elsien

colinw said:

and relax.......

I really want to be somewhere like that right now. 

colinw

elsien said:

colinw said:

and relax.......

I really want to be somewhere like that right now. 

You need to drive up to Seahouses / Bamburgh, definitely quieter than Bournemouth beach was yesterday

** note to self.....how can I get 4 spelling mistakes in a post this ling ** conclusion...I am an idiot..thanks